Level 4

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Early Advanced Stage

Student
  • Various rates of progression
    • Students with high reading and writing skills progress faster
    • Students with lower literacy skills progress slower
    • Can take up to 4 years to progress to next level
  • Characteristics of students at this level
    • Errors in spelling and grammar
    • Shows beginning stages of understanding academic language
    • Write with fluency
    • Near proficient in grade level
    • Understands grade level texts
  • Progression to next level
    • Increased use of academic language and subject-specific terminology
    • High fluency in all literacy skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening)
    • Ability to use text references
    • Few grammatical errors in speaking
  • Student Activities
    • Listening
      • Responding to funny stories and jokes
      • Formulating questions
      • Asking clarifying questions
    • Speaking
      • Using academic language
      • Oral presentations
      • Word games
    • Reading
      • Grade level texts
      • Participate in cooperative group reading
      • Outlining text
      • Using reference materials for key words
    • Writing
      • Editing grammar and spelling errors
      • Taking notes from various sources
      • Outline readings
      • Using graphic organizersDescriptiveorThematicMap.gif
      • Writing in different genres
Teacher:
  • Strategies
    • Listening
      • Explore word play
        • Using comic strips or jokes
        • Responding to funny stories
      • Formulate questions and seek answers
        • Who, what, where, and whystorystar.gif
    • Speaking
      • Teach content English Language Development
      • Background knowledge on academic language
      • Word origins
      • Fluency development
        • interactive games such as charades, lingo bingo, and who am i?
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    • Reading
      • Teacher guided content reading
      • Organizers for reading material
      • Practice with reading expository texts to learn information
      • Providing reference material
    • Writing
      • Grammar and spelling rules instructions
      • Organizational skills
        • Pre-writing
        • Note taking
        • Outlining